66 My good Yankee cooking has lured New England travelers since 1771 Back In Paul Revere's day, good Yankee cookIng made the Publick House a popular tavern and pub among our Colonial ancestors. And when you visit us today, you'll feast on some of those same generous meals Like steak in a skillet, with crushed peppercorns or red wine sauce. Or indi- vidual baked lobster pie The Publick House is right on your way to or from New England And just mile from Old Sturbridge Village. So stop by someday soon. And bnng an appetite that's ready for lots of my good Yankee cooking. 1771 -the Innkeeper Pub lick House On the Common - Sturbridge, Mass. (617) 347-3313 Take Exit 3 from 1-86 or Exit 9 from Mass. Tpke Near Old Sturbridge Village. High on a Creen I\t\ountain knoll, tournament caliber clay tennis courts; golf nearby, riding, gardens hiking. Rooms and suites most with balcony or ter- race. 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There wi}] be continuous music on five or siÀ bandstands, and it'll be fret It win bt a neighborhood thing, and we'l1 have as much local talent as we can find. " "J oyce is a whIZ at things like this," Wein said. "She was the one who suggested having the Hudson Rive r boat ride on a Staten IsLlnd ferry." "I'm going to fix some lunch upstairs now," sht said. Wein said he would be up in a mInute, and she dis- appeared. He got up and t4l threaded his way through the outer offices of F estiva] Produc- tions, stoppIng to talk with Marie St. Louis, another longtime associdte, and \vith Bob Jones, who is in charge of the Ticketron machine that has bten installed to sell seats for the Festival \Vein told Marie St. Louis he'd be back in an hour, and we crossed the apartment-house lobby to the elevator. "Joyce and I used to live in the office. The room where I am was our bedroom. But we took an apartment on the sixteenth floor a while ago, and I think it's one of the rea- sons I likt New York now. Before we lived in thIs building, we had another ground-floor place, over on Central Park "-est The only time I saw any sunlight was up at )J ewport." T HE Weins' apartment is domi- nated by a big living room, \vhich is painted \vhite and has d bank of windows looking out OVer the Hudson. There are long white net curtains at the windows, and the) \vere swaying gently back and forth. The furniture is spare and comfortable, and there is a grand piano in one corner and a cou- ple of portraits of Joyce Wein on the walls Two places were set at a dining- r00111 table near the piano, and after Wein and I sat down, she brought out shrimp salads and slices of toasted Italian bread. The shnmps were tiny and delicate and sweet. She saId she had carried them back on the plane the day before from California, where her mother lives. She poured t\VO ginger ales and settled nearby on a brown velvet sofa. "The interesting thing about Joyce's family IS how close it is to history," \Vein said. "Her l11other, who is eighty- four, was the youngest of thirteen JUNE 2, -+, I 9 7 2, kids. Her two oldest sIsters were born before Emancipation But all of them had secondary educations, and all of Joyce's brothers and sIsters are coUeg(' d " gra uates. "J ean Hewitt of the ]'irru:s wants Mother's baktd-bean recipe for the w0111en's page," she said. "But I don't knoV'rl' what to tell her. All Mother does is put in some of this and some of that and a little more of this and a lIttle more of that, and I can't get her to write anything down \Ve lived in Boston I was the sixth of "even chIldren, which included five girls and two boys. I went to the girls' part of Boston LatIn, and then to SÌ111- 111ons. I was a chemistry nla- jor, and I worked for a long time in a lab at Mass Gen- eral." \\T ein laughed and shook his head. "Joyce was fiftetn when she went to college and nineteen when she grad 1I- I " atec . "I was at Mass General until we moved to Ne\v YOlk," she said, "and then I was at Colu111bia Medical School f " or two years. "That was right after the 1960 riot shut the Festival down," \Vein said, and he laughtd again. "I was a hundred thousand in debt, and she took a job for six thousand a year." "Well, we ate." "\Ve ate, and I sat around and ac- tually played Scrabble with myself. Those were some days." "1 started working for the F e tival in 1963-in particuLtr the Folk F'esti- val I took over the housing and the transportation and the food." "In its fi rst years, the Folk F'esti va 1 was the purest event we ever had," \Vein said. "It was run by the per- formers, and everybody got paid fifty bucks for the weekend, no matter whether he waS a I)ylan or a nobody. Fifty dollars p] u" trdnsportatIon ctIlll room and board." Joyce Wein asked us if we wanted an) more to eat, and \Vein said he was on a diet. She cleared the table and sat down again. \Vein and I moved over to another sofa. "My father was a bricklayet ," she said. "He was killed in an accident at work in 1942. M) mother clnd fathel met at Hdmpton Institute, where he learnell bricklaying. They got mar- ried and went to Philadelphia, but he couldn't find work-except as a hod carriel and mixer. So the} went to Newark. My mother sat in th(' train station all day while my father ran around looking for work, but stIll no